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Law School Rankings Based on Lawyer Ratings

Posted on November 17, 2008
The lawyer rating website Avvo has produced a Top 5 and Bottom 5 Law School Ranking, based on the average rating of the lawyers who are graduates of the schools. Here are the Avvo ratings for the Top 5 and...

Voluntary Disclosure Update for U.S. UBS Clients

Posted on November 17, 2008
William M. Sharp Sr. & Larry R. Kemm (both of Sharp & Associates, Tampa) have published Voluntary Disclosure Update for U.S. UBS Clients, 52 Tax Notes Int'l 487 (Nov. 10, 2008): Because of recent developments, U.S. taxpayers who maintain undisclosed....

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Posted on November 17, 2008
Saturday: Lawyer Indicted for HOMER Tax Shelter Fraud Grassley Seeks Investigation of IRS's Issuance of Bank Bailout Notice 2008-83 Rangel Hires Accountant to Scrub Tax Returns Sunday: Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads Rooneys Race to Sell Pittsburgh Steelers to Avoid...

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

Posted on November 16, 2008
There is a bit of movement in this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with new papers debuting on the list at # 3 and #5: 1. [478 Downloads] A Brief Analysis of Governor Palin's Tax...

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Rooneys Race to Sell Pittsburgh Steelers to Avoid Obama Tax Increase

Posted on November 16, 2008
Life-long Republican Dan Rooney, Chairman and owner of 16% of the stock of the Pittsburgh Steelers, raised eyebrows this fall with his outspoken support of Barack Obama. The Pittsburgh press is reporting that Rooney and his son have reached agreement...

Divided D.C. Circuit OKs Deviation From Sentencing Guidelines to Give Probation in Tax Fraud Case

Posted on November 16, 2008
On Friday, the D.C. Circuit ruled 2-1 to affirm the district court's decision to impose probation and a fine for defendant's conviction for filing a false income tax return. United States v. Gardellini, No. 07-3089 (D.C. Cir. Nov. 14, 2008):...

Rangel to Push for 28% Corporate Tax Rate

Posted on November 16, 2008
Bloomberg: Rangel Plans Push to Cut Top Corporate Tax Rate to 28 Percent, by Ryan J. Donmoyer & Peter Cook New York Representative Charles Rangel said he's revising his tax overhaul proposal to reduce U.S. corporate tax rates to 28%,...

Lawyer Indicted for HOMER Tax Shelter Fraud

Posted on November 15, 2008
From Friday's DOJ press release: John B. Ohle III, a former member of the tax shelter promotion group at a national bank, has been charged with conspiring with lawyers at the law firm of Jenkens & Gilchrist and others to...

Grassley Seeks Investigation of IRS's Issuance of Bank Bailout Notice 2008-83

Posted on November 15, 2008
Senate Finance Committee ranking member Charles Grassley has sent this letter to the Treasury Inspector General asking him to investigate the issuance of Notice 2008-83, which lifted restrictions on the ability of banks to use NOLs after an acquisition...

Rangel Hires Accountant to Scrub Tax Returns

Posted on November 15, 2008
Embattled House Ways & Means Chair Charles Rangel has hired an accounting firm to scrub his tax returns to look for additional errors: Associated Press The Hill New York Post New York Times NY1 I wonder if the accounting firm...

Bankman Testifies on Tax Treatment of Hedge Fund Managers

Posted on November 14, 2008
Joe Bankman (Stanford) has had a busy week: he testified at yesterday's hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Hedge Funds and the Financial Market. Here is Joe's recommendation: The tax advantage of deferral of management fees...

WSJ: AIG Uses Bailout Funds to Sue IRS for $329m Tax Refund

Posted on November 14, 2008
Wall Street Journal: AIG's Tax Dispute With U.S. Has Twist of Irony, by Jesse Drucker: American International Group Inc. is in a battle with the Internal Revenue Service over $329 million in back taxes and penalties in part stemming from...

MGM Mirage CEO Resigns After USC Denies He Earned MBA

Posted on November 14, 2008
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Peroni Presents Better Than Exemption Today at Toronto

Posted on November 14, 2008
Robert J. Peroni (Texas) presents Better Than Exemption (with J. Clifton Fleming, Jr. (BYU) & Stephen E. Shay (Ropes & Gray, Boston) at the University of Toronto today as part of the James Hausman Tax Law and Policy Workshop Series....

There Goes My Job in the Obama Administration

Posted on November 14, 2008
Check out the seven-page, 63-item questionnaire that the Obama transition team is requiring prospective cabinet members and other high-level officials to fill out. Item 10 is quite a problem for bloggers: 10. Writings: Please list and, if readily available, provide...

9th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation

Posted on November 14, 2008
Several U.S. Tax Profs presented papers at the 9th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation at the National University of Singapore: Mona L Hymel (Arizona). Tax Credits for Nuclear Energy ? To Be or Not to Be? Roberta Mann (Widener), Crouching...

Noonan & Trachtenberg: An End to the Temporary Stay Test in New York?

Posted on November 14, 2008
Timothy P. Noonan & Jack Trachtenberg (both of Hodgson Russ, Buffalo) have published An End to the Temporary Stay Test in New York?, 50 State Tax Notes 383 (Nov. 10, 2008): The tax department has recently proposed a repeal of...

Slemrod Presents Coase, Calabresi & Optimal Tax Policy Today at Columbia

Posted on November 13, 2008
Joel Slemrod (Michigan) presents Of Coase, Calabresi,and Optimal Tax Policy (with Kyle D. Logue (Michigan)) at Columbia today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series. Here is the Conclusion: Two venerable but heretofore parallel scholarly traditions, tax remittance invariance...

Brooks Presents Tax Law: The Price We Pay For Civilization Today at McGill

Posted on November 13, 2008
Kimberly Brooks (McGill) presents Taxation Law: The Price We Pay For Civilization at McGill today as part of its Faculty Workshop Series.

Lustig Presents Company-Owned Life Insurance Today at BC

Posted on November 13, 2008
Eric A. Lustig (New England) presents From Dilbert to Murder-Mystery: The Strange Case of Company-Owned Life Insurance at Boston College today as part of its Tax Policy Workshop Series. Here is part of the Introduction: COLI plans have generated litigation...

WSJ: Tax Data Highlight Corporate Loopholes

Posted on November 13, 2008
Wall Street Journal: Tax Data Highlight Corporate Loopholes, by Jesse Drucker: The IRS found that U.S. companies paid federal income taxes on their reported U.S. profits at far less than the 35% statutory rate, offering a potential revenue source for...

2008 Tannenwald Writing Competition Results

Posted on November 13, 2008
Results in the 2008 Tannenwald Writing Competition, sponsored by the Theodore Tannenwald, Jr. Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship and the American College of Tax Counsel: First Prize ($3,500): Kathryn A. Fuehrmeyer (Notre Dame), Cutting Out the Middleman: Allowing Offshore...

Morris: The Economic Significance of � 121

Posted on November 13, 2008
Michael H. Morris (University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business) has published The Relevance of the Principal Residence Gain Exclusion,121 Tax Notes 684 (Nov. 10, 2008). Here is the Conclusion: The results of this study provide several important contributions...

Texas to Raise $200m to Crack U.S. News Top 10

Posted on November 13, 2008
Austin American-Statesman: Law School Dean Trying to Break Into Top 10 Rankings: Lawrence Sager knows he will be measured by his ability to raise the $200 million he has promised to add to the University of Texas School of Law's...

NY Post: Abuse Rampant at Celebrity Charities

Posted on November 12, 2008
Sophie E. Smith (Temple) of our sister Nonprofit Law Prof Blog has a great discussion of various abuses uncovered by the New York Post's examination of the tax returns of ten celebrity charities, including Tyra Banks, Bono, George Clooney, Magic...

UBS Official Indicted for Tax Evasion

Posted on November 12, 2008
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Another Reason to Cherish This Job

Posted on November 12, 2008
I wake up every morning incredibly thankful that I have this job -- I honestly think it is the best job in the world. And tenure (with a generous defined-benefit plan backed by the State of Ohio) is especially comforting...

Mason Presents Welfare, Tax Incentives and Labor Mobility Today at Penn

Posted on November 12, 2008
Ruth Mason (UConn) presents Welfare, Tax Incentives, and Labor Mobility at Pennsylvania today as part of its Tax Law and Policy Seminar Series. Here is the abstract: The article deals with the question of whether the source state or the...

Warren Buffett: Estate Tax Hypocrite?

Posted on November 12, 2008
Edward A. Zelinsky (Cardozo): Warren Buffett and the Estate Tax (Oxford University Press Blog): Among his other observations, Buffett has correctly noted the dangers to a democracy of inherited wealth as well as the moral obligation of those who have...

Big Winner of World Series of Poker: The Tax Man

Posted on November 12, 2008
The big winner at this year's World Series of Poker: the tax man. Russ Fox computes the tax liability of the final nine players on their $32.7 million of winnings as $14.3 million -- a 43.7% tax rate: Peter Eastgate...

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